[MemberPubPol] [chapter-delegates] FYI - in the coming discussion of the WGIG questionnaire

[Veni Markovski]

At 08:46 20-06-05  -0700, Fred Baker wrote:
>governments have access today. It's called GAC. What they don't have, and 
>what I understand them to be requesting, is control.

That's why I wanted you to define "access".
You see, on this mailing list there are many people, whose English is not 
native. While I appreciate the facts, and personally make every effort to 
make sure I try to be as descriptive as possible, there are always errors - 
both on my side, and on many of the other people. Here's an exmaple - me 
and Alex Corentin exchanged a couple of e-mails yesterday, and we cleared 
out something, which was obviously a communications error.
Amazingly, it's much more difficult to achieve such a "clearing" with some 
of the US-English speakers. Is it only because of language difference, or 
also because of cultural differences, I don't know.

What I know, however, is that the access you talk about is not the access 
the GAC wants. It's not also the way Paul Twomey said it last week, see 
http://www.icann.org/announcements/ICANN-WGIG-statement-14jun05.pdf

Insteaf of wasting both our time, and the time of the many readers of this 
list, why not start to talk about some concrete work with respect to the 
changes needed, instead of the "keeping the sacred cow untouched"?

veni\